ALLESBOROUGH MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name and historical forms Allesbergh, Ealesberga and Elesberge correspond to the Worcestershire manor centred at Allesborough, north-west of Pershore. The supplied TNA records are a coherent series of medieval and post-medieval court rolls, accounts, rentals and surveys for this manor, while independent historical evidence identifies Allesborough Farm as the successor to the abbey's demesne farm and identifies Allesborough Manor as including associated settlements in the former Pershore Abbey estate.
Representative point: 52.11520, -2.09110
Basis: documented_estate_centre — Allesborough Farmhouse and its associated barn occupy the historic Allesborough farmstead. Historic England records the farmhouse as probably fifteenth-century and notes that it is the successor to the Abbot's demesne farm and part of the abbey estates; the associated listed barn is located at OS grid reference SO938463. This is the best surviving documented location for the manor's demesne/manorial centre.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; extent evidenced particularly by the former Pershore Abbey estate and the post-Dissolution manor
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor's core at Allesborough Farm and associates the manor or its estate with Allesborough, Broughton/Drakes Broughton, Caldwell, Chevington, Walcot, Thorndon, Caddicroft and Wadborough. The 1802 enclosure evidence explicitly states that land in Broughton in the former Holy Cross parish was part of the Manor of Allesborough. However, no authoritative manor map, metes-and-bounds description, mapped rental, enclosure plan or parcel-level reconstruction was located that would support a defensible continuous historical polygon. The named settlements should therefore be treated as associated manorial lands rather than as a proven perimeter.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Allesborough Manor, TNA/MDR record F275581: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F275581 — Registry authority record for the exact manor, associated with Pershore Holy Cross, Worcestershire.
- Historic England: Allesborough Farmhouse, Pershore: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101386896-allesborough-farmhouse-pershore — Identifies the surviving farmhouse at Allesborough Hill as probably fifteenth-century and the successor to the Abbot's demesne farm and part of the abbey estates.
- Historic England: Allesborough Farmhouse Barn, Pershore: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101386897-allesborough-farmhouse-barn-pershore — Provides the listed farmstead location at OS grid reference SO938463 and coordinates approximately 52.1152, -2.0911.
- Drakes Broughton and Wadborough historical account: https://www.heritagedetectives.org/pershore-area/drakes-broughton-wadborough/ — States that Drakes Broughton, Caldwell, Chevington, Walcot and Wadborough were hamlets within the Manor of Allesborough, and records the 1802 enclosure of Broughton land as belonging to the manor.
- Sir Ralph Sadleir state papers: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/The_state_papers_and_letters_of_Sir_Ralph_Sadler%2C_knight-banneret_%28IA_statepapers01sadl%29.pdf — Records the post-Dissolution lordship and manor of Allesborough as formerly belonging to Pershore monastery, with its hamlets, lands and tithes.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No defensible historical manor boundary polygon was found in the accessible evidence.
- The associated settlements and former abbey lands cannot safely be converted into a continuous manor perimeter without a period-specific map, survey or parcel reconstruction.
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor's documented demesne/manorial centre, not for asserting the exact extent of all historical manorial lands.